HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting said that Labour “should be really worried” over Reform UK’s sweeping victories in last week’s local elections during his address and Q&A at the Usdaw annual conference today.

He described the far-right populist party as a “threat” to the NHS after its leader Nigel Farage suggested that Britain needs “to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.”

Mr Streeting stressed that he understood the cynicism in politics after years of “incompetence, failure and corruption” but added that he would have had to borrow money or go into debt if he had to pay privately for his NHS kidney cancer treatment in 2021.